From: Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] awk bug
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 03:04:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e0a9a01a6accff18d80fc79e7be4a2a0@collyer.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d2f8e7b66b79d38d34ac299d879b7c03@sdgm.net>
I'm not sure if `$f[0]' should work as you intend
(maybe `($f)[0]' is the right parse), but parentheses
can fix things to work as you intend:
; echo a b c | awk 'BEGIN { f[0] = 2 }
{ print $(f[0]) }'
b
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-15 10:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-15 9:53 boyd
2003-09-15 10:04 ` Geoff Collyer [this message]
2003-09-15 10:14 ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-15 11:44 ` Aharon Robbins
2003-09-15 20:03 ` boyd, rounin
2010-04-19 16:33 erik quanstrom
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